Barnes does well in explaining why the slow road to picking the Democratic nominee has taught us much we wouldn’t know otherwise about the two candidates. It has also may have provided the party leaders with a genuine role in selecting the nominee, if they chose to exercise it. This race has similarities to the last couple under the "mixed" nominating system (some delegates selected by primaries, others selected by party leaders in the states)--the Republican contest of 1964 and the Democrat one in 1968. In both of those cases, the June California primary was crucial. CA made the Goldwater nomination inevitable and, in my opinion, would have made Robert Kennedy’s nomination very likely [We’ll never know, of course]. I also remember CA in those days was decisive because it was winner-take-all. Under the Democrats’ current scheme of hyper-proportional representation, the close CA result in the Goldwater and Kennedy cases would have been utterly inconclusive.
2. Having said that, I really believe that the primaries/cacuses have ended up being conclusive this year for the Demos.
My bold prediction: The polls are more or less right. Clinton wins by 5 in IN and Obama by 8 in NC. Race over, for all practical purposes.
Of course, the race has been over, "for all practical purposes" for a while now, so I wonder if even your predicted result would end it? Will Hillary drop out if she doesn't come real close in NC?
Peter, have you checked out POWERLINE today? If you had, you would see some new information about Wright, and about his congregation, the kind of details that ought to give every single super-delegate reason to pause before extending the nomination to Barack Hussein Obama.
The Wright story still hasn't fully registered yet with the electorate. But talk radio and the blogosphere are going to make that story swell to enormous proportions.
There are Democrats who are already nervous about Wright and his most famous disciples, Barack Hussein and Michelle Obama. Thus Hillary isn't done yet. But she needs to step in and use that story; she can't be content to allow Republican talk radio to push it for her. She has to make it THE issue down the homestretch in this race.
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